id in darkness this was highly political and it was never have been before. my team and by myself have never been short of determination of patience waiting for the proposals. it also our flexibility. it's also in regard to contempt.

it was about and is about content. as far as this is concerned i have to invite you to remember you, we went very far to achieve socially measures at the same time can support growth and fiscal consolidation and take account of the request of the greek government. this is certain a demanding and comprehensive package, but it is a fair one, and i must stress that it has been developed through months and months day and night of discussion and debate. let me clarify it by a few things. nobody is allowed to give the impression that there are rate

cuts in this package. there are no cuts in this package. no cuts in this package. in fact, it's a package which is more growth, a more modern and trance patient public administration. you should be aware that it was the most fair measures. i would have expected the greek government to push this agenda in line with its campaign manifesto. there is not -- the measures, of course, will hurt in the near term. but package goes well beyond

fiscal measures and proposes a clear way forward. moreover this package lowers the fiscal and gives more time to the greek government to achieve them. compare to the previous people, it is more than 12 billion less savings that are requested from greece in the coming years. and in fact, the greek government has already agreed to this although we have to discuss in the very intense manner amongst the three institutions. but fiscal consolidation means keeping public finances in control, by boosting opportunities for jobs and growth. many member states have even higher fiscal targets despite having lower levels of debt.

there, as i said, no wage cuts in this package. this was never never, ever on the table. what is on the table is a proposal to modernize the rates of the public sector. with we have to agree collective bargaining practices. our own request has been that this will be done in line with the best european practices in cooperation with institutions and in cooperation with the international labor organization. that is the specialist of this that one comes to this question. throughout, as i said, no cuts, even the greek government and the greeks have to know that even the greek government agrees that the greek system

urgently needs reform to be sustainable, the greek government is no longer sustainable. it should be fair so that everyone can introduce the wealth according to their means. we achieve staffing for early retirement. it could achieve as long as the number is up, so the government could also substitute measures for alternatives as long as the numbers add up. the package means social attempts by targeting support to the most vulnerable.

for instance the guarantee income, by making sure that the efforts required are proportionate, but targeting cuts in areas which look effect, the average such is true defense cuts. we were asking for cuts, and i think that we are totally right to proposal cuts in the defense budget. we challenge vested interest such as removing tax treatments. it took some time, if not hours, to convince i had to do the drop for the greek government to impose less favor tax treatment, although this is coming sense and is in line with justice.

this means corruption, people are not those who are corrupt, others are. we have to fight against corruption if we want to be practical. this supports no transparency and deficiency of the public, including the text. who could be against the demonstration? this is in all european countries. the government agrees to the undertaking. once again we were the ones pushing for this. our offers of technical assistance have not been entirely taken up. this package under the present

view, and i have to underline here that they did an excellent job for the last month, an excellent job a difficult job but never acting in the most way possible. this package also means more growth and more investment. growth can restart, but there are no quick fixes to some of greece's underlying problems. it is twice the energy and some commodities amongst all. because the competition this promotes investment.

that is why i favor the proposal, but not to the proposal for one with respect to 2014 profits. the biggest investment at the moment is uncertainty uncertainty which can only be removed by doing a deal that provides a framework for the weak economy and people, to put it and together with the objection. so what has happened? and where are we now? as you know, this is away from the table unexpectedly, i have to say, from friday night. the negotiations were not finished and the agreement was

finalized. again on friday, we were working on further openings and condition together with others was promoted to limit increase and reduced to 13%. the fact that our colleagues was living the negotiation table happened at the worst moment present and by myself explain to the greek prime minister a deal on these measures could unlock and allowing greece to mean the financial needs over the next coming months. you discuss debt measures in line with the statement of

november 2012, already this open to ensure the long-term stability of greek public finance. we have already discussed mr. tsipras knows this. a deal could ensure that there's a package and a job of the greek economy getting back on track. together with all the other commission enroll to put together all the elements in order to be able to provide grief, because this is not only about consolidation, this is also about putting forward the growth opportunities of the greek economy.

it's a huge part of the package, the commission and i myself and together we were proposing, so you can see that we really move mountains until the very last minute when greek authorities chose to go. all limits were on the table. so i don't have another reason, and i don't have to make new proposals today. i'm describing the proposals which were on the table and which were the nature. i have to say easy aagreement of the last saturday. what do people know about our flexibility is and information? what do they know about the details of our proposals?

what do they know about this latest offer we were obliged not to take interference on the greek, but to inform the republic on the table. what did they know about this offer we published yesterday, putting together all the elements together with the greek authority. what do the greek people know about all this, and the reason why i'm -- the greek people, they have to know what is the talk. they have to know what was on the table. they have to know all the elements together when we were sitting there. i think the greek government

knows all this, and it would be advisable to the greek government to tell the truth, but to simplify its own message from next sunday. they have the absolute stwipe put these questions, to ask people to give their advice. the average citizen deserves the whole story and the truth and they have to know on our side the door is still open. >> you're listening to european

commission president there speaking about the greek financial crisis. i've got our business editor, steven carroll who was listening to that with us as well. quite strong words there. >> yes uncharacteristically angry press conference from the head of the european commission. he said it was welcome to game of liars poker and was deeply sad these talks did fall apart on saturday. the momentum has been smashed by the greek government's attempts to -- he said rather, at nounsment of this refer dusm it's interesting, he's saying there's no need for proposals which was tellingous french radio earlier today he said the proposals they have around the table and that it's up to the greek government to do something about that. let's remind ourselves of where the points of disagreement were. they had main focus on two main areas. one is good and services, and the discussion which we have, it was a 10-page document that was published by the european

commission after those talks fell apart. they said that was the document that they were discussing. it wasn't agreed to by both sides n. that we know there was a sign to introduce three rates of v.a.t., the authorities rather had made some concessions on that front. they allowed hotels to come into the middle, which was one of the discussions, but they had this issue over what rates should be applied to food, the current proposal from the institutions had some food taxed at 13% that was the really big issue for the greek government. there was also an issue over it on the greek islands, which is very important within the coalition for one of the junior coalition partners. there was no agreement on that either. pension reform was another big issue. interestingly, he said there was no intention cost in this proposal. that's a debatable point, because one of the issues up for discussion was a pop-up front, which the institutions want greece to phase out over a period of time, and there was a disagreement over how fast that

should happen and b, what it could be replaced with, and whether or not they want to scrap it all together and replace it with a system that they felt would have been fairer and easier pay for, which is the whole point. but very strong words there. he really was laying it all out greece's door, saying we've done everything we can, and it's now greece that's left them in this situation. >> and he's saying there as well, we are now in the very last minutes of this. what does that mean concretely? >> he's looking at the end of the bail justice, which happens tomorrow. that means, of course, you don't have that money, part of the funding disappears. there's also a question over access to emergency bank support, which has been a really key part. greek banks are essential out of cash. people have been taking billions out of greek banks in recent weeks and months, 30 billion since january according to figures, and they would have been supported almost entirely by the european central bank. there's a big question mark over whether or not that

support could continue if greece exits its bailout without a deal on reform. greece also has to pay to the i.m.f. tomorrow f. it can't do that by close of business in washington tomorrow, that means that they would be in arrears and positive he shallly in default, which creates a whole other set of problems. and this is why alexis tsipras income his speech on sunday, said he asked for another extension of the bailout, just until monday, until they can have the referendum, and there's no sign that's going to be greed to. >> talk us through about this referendum, because if i knew correctly, he said something like it's advisable for the greek government to tell the truth for the people, is he accusing them of lying? >> that's the reference that the savings were being made on both sides particularly around saturday around points that you were having one side say we never got agreement on this, and the other side saying we actually had agreed to saving, then a whole information war involved about who's making

threats and who's agreed to what and who's telling who what. and that all becomes very important, balls the question in the greece referendum is going to be on this proposal. do you or do you not accept the economic reform proposals that have been put forward? the idea, is of course alexis tsipras announced part of his strategy well, if is it going to force them to change their offer, are they going to soften their position because they know it will be more appetizing to the greek people rather than just necessarily dealing with the greek government. >> have they called greece's bluff? what is the situation now? >> alexis tsipras seems to have gown down to calling this referendum of course what's happened near cruz is there are austerity measures before, but it never got this far down the line. the real issue is going to be how things are going play out in greece. we're seeing already of

course the capital control have been imposed to 60 euros withdrawals for account holders, lots of other restrictions put in place as well. that's going to make life very difficult for greeks. that's going to change public opinion, because the referendum will de facto become whether or not they want to stay in, because this situation leaves the government in. so that could potentially put you go further down the road to a greece exit. >> i call on the greek people to vote yes. whatever the question puts although it will be sfwog see what happens if the referendum does go through. do stay with us. we'll be getting back to more business news, but we're going to turn our attention now to another top story today on france 24. in burundi, people are voting today for a new parliament. this is the first in a series of elections that happened boycotted by the opposition. weeks of protest and violence were triggered by a decision from the president to run for what the opposition has called,

unconstitutional third term in office n. meantime, the speaker of burundi's national assembly fled to belgium. he told them more about what he called the president's illegal bid. >> the president is a man who fought for burundi to become a state of law during the resistance movement. we'd like to ask him to change his position so that after years in power, he does not establish an authority which violates the law and violates the constitution. an authority which does not risk the fundamental text of the republic, including the agreement which allows the different groups to coexist. we were aware of this rebellion, but it was only made public today. within the ruling party, we knew that the current president

of the national assembly and the second vice president of the country were rebels. they were the ones who asked people to sign the petition, but made all the front pages of the newspapers some months ago. >> for more on burundi i'm joined by our chief foreign editor, robert par sofpbles republican mind us once again how we got to this point. robert: it really kicked off on april 25 when the incumbent president announced he was going to stand for a third term. everybody had known there was a possibility he was going to do this, but up until that point it was political opposition in the corridors of power, if you like. but once he made the decision, things stashed to change very quickly. there were mass demonstrations on the streets and pretty tough repression from the police in burundi as well. the argument people made

against him is he should have abided by the constitution. the constitution put together in 2006 to bring an end to the civil war of 13 years, stipulated a president should not be able to serve more than 10 years or two terms. the response to the president was, yes except that in my first term, i wasn't elected by a popular ballot, i was chosen by parliament. therefore, the constitution doesn't apply to me. anyway, the situation spiraled out of control. he was out of the country for a while, and while he was out of the country, somehow the 5r78 forces attempted a coup d'etat against him. it failed. the large part of the army remained loyal to him, and ever since then, the situation has 70 people killed somewhere in the region of 130,000 people fleeing the country. >> since then, several senior officials have left the country. how is that likely to affect the situation? >> probably internally not

investment externally in the sense that it will probably rack up the criticism first of all, the opposition isn't standing in the election they're boycotting the election, so clearly he's set to win the election. he remains, it has to be said, popular in rural parts of the country as well. he manages to communicate very well with the majority of huh tu population and the population of the country. so it's unlikely to balance externally, however, the criticism is going to mount and mount. already we have the african union, the united nations, the united states, and the european union are criticizing the decision of the election to go ahead. and in the case of the european union, threatening possible sanctions. >> robert, thank you for that, robert parsons. next, to tunisia, where a memorial is being held on the

beach that was the site of friday's deadly attack. three days ago, a gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a hotel resort with a rifle he had hidden with a beach umbrella. 40 were killed many of them british tourists. officials from the u.k. are there, as well as ministers from france, germany, and belgium. our chris mohr was also at the ceremony today. let's listen. >> european foreign ministers have a some rhine laid out to the victims on the beach here. security now obviously top of the agenda as they meet with local officials. a number of questions have been asked by many people since this attack why the gunman was or the radar. the more general is the problem since the revolution. it was in previous years confined largely to isolated attacks on police and security forces. we've now, of course had the

museum attack in tunis, and now this deadly assault on what was thought to be one of the country's safer places and one of its most popular tourist resorts, security cooperation between european allies and the

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